Use Ctrl+Alt+Del to bring up Task Manager, then right-click the program in question and set it to highest priority. If you do this, make sure you won't need the computer until it's done, because it'll take so much from your system the Task Manager won't want to come up again.

I've already tested that, the idle process takes about 20%, that means that VDMod doesn't want more than 65% CPU power :confused: I mean, it's not that another process needs the power, it's just not used?!?

It appears reasonably obvious to me that VdubMod is not consuming CPU because it is waiting on something else -- most likely I/O. I would look to your HD DMA settings and/or other devices on the same bus. Moving to PC H/W S/W forum.

Thx all! I've got a SATA via Raid and a DVD drive via IDE bus, but thats not in use while encoding. It's hard to believe, that the SATA is to slow :confused:

I'm not quite experienced with RAID ect so I'll try to say it as simple as possible (so understand it ;) ),my SATA 160GB Maxtor is just plugged to my mainboard, so I guess it's not realy RAID or at least not how I understand it. There's also no disc array, no second HD. I also don't know how to configure this properly or if there's anything to configure at all. What I just don't understand is why the idle process keeps about 20% during second pass, I mean XviD should encode using max of the CPU power possible, shouldn't it? And I couldn't imagine this f**** Maxtor is to slow. Damn, I feel so stupid :angry: Have to learn now for some exams and get back into this in the next days. Thx jggimi

well.. if you have 65% used by virtual dub and 20% by the idle process.. which process is eating up the remaining 15%?

on the 2nd pass, do you experience lag when you try to access the HD on Windows Explorer?

thx pplz Did some further testing and experienced some minor lags in explorer. VDMod was set to high priority in task manager and used about 65-75%. Most the time everything was smoothly in the explorer, but when I opened a movie during second pass the usage jumped shortly to 100% but then the idle process took back kinda 10-15%. At Realtime setting there a lags, but the idle process still has about 20%. When I look at the CPU Graphs (show both CPU setting) it looks like someone having a heartattack. Will do some further testing. Maybe its a CPU temp problem, but I did this test fresh on start and the first pass used more CPU power. Could this be some SP2 problem? Sounds ridiculous, but I installed SP2 some days ago (clean) and this problem never occured to me before, so I think at least EDIT: Did some qick 1-pass encoding with NeroVisionExp (avi 2 DVD) and NVE.exe took 95-99% CPU usage, so its possible, why can't GK/VDM/XviD (don't know who to blame) :angry: EDIT2: When loading the vob file directly into VDM or NeroVExp and encoding single pass about 50% usage. Reinstalled XviD, no effect. Does anyone with a PreScott HT have 99% CPU usage?

More than likely it's going as fast as possible, but only using one of the virtual cpus provided by HT. You're probably not missing anything.

Hmm, could be. Just thought that anything less then 99% isn't full power. But anyway, last CPU was AMD and atm it looks sure as hell next one will be too :D